motivated efforts to expand the definition of student outcomes across countries. By the mid-1990s, ABET anticipated this need by shifting the accreditation basis toward outcomes ratherthan inputs, affecting engineering programs’ practices in the U.S. and in other countries, includedAustralia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom2. These criteria, widelyknown as EC2000, specified 11 learning outcomes (see Appendix 3)16: a) Five technical skills: Related to the development of students’ mathematical, scientific, and technical knowledge. b) Six professional skills: Those that emphasize communicating and working effectively on teams, besides the awareness of ethical and contextual
the Chinese nation in the cultural andspiritual path. Among them, the ethical culture of Confucianism constitutes the core oftraditional culture and is an important pillar of life and spiritual order. For example,Confucianism advocates “exercising benevolence”. The cultural intension of this kind ofbenevolence is manifested in the spirit of practicing, caring about society, and activelyjoining the society (ru shi). The Taoist thought advocates “inaction” or “do-nothingness” (wuwei) to express the heart of salvation. Among them, the dialectic thought that “being andnot-being grow out of one another” (you wu xiang sheng) in Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching hasimportant implications for entrepreneurial activities, such as starting a business from nothing
brokerage and a biotech firm. Ms. Pyle holds a MBA degree from Averett University, a MEd. from the University of Houston, and a BA in Geology from Cedar Crest College. She has served on various boards including the Board of Directors for the Charlottesville Venture Group where she chaired the Business Plan Review and Annual Business Forum Committees. In addition, she has served on the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council and as a founding Director for the Business Growth Network. She also served on the board of the Division of Professional Affairs Advisory Council for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Known for her candor and high ethical standards, positive energy and astute people skills, she has
Dr. Justin L Hess is the Assistant Director of the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of STEM Education Research in the Department of Technology Leader- ship and Communication at IUPUI. Dr. Hess’s research interests include exploring empathy’s functional role in engineering and design; designing STEM ethics curricula; and evaluating learning in the spaces of design, ethics, and sustainability. Previously, Justin worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Wel- don School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University where he created and refined ethical theory and learning modules to improve engineering students’ ethical reasoning skills and dispositions. Justin
, time, and performance and; 5. Become aware of ethical and societal concerns relating to the problems being solved.Using ABET’s concept of outcomes based learning, there should be learning outcomes that aremeasurable and targeted to help the students in reaching the stated objectives. The learningoutcomes for the workshop are listed below.The student will: 1. Apply the Lean LaunchPad process to engineering design; 2. Analyze a problem, and identify and define the requirements appropriate to a solution; 3. Design, implement, and evaluate an engineering design to meet desired needs; 4. Function effectively on teams to accomplish a common goal; 5. Understand professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues and
, wire the meters, programthe sensors and the meters, and test their completed total-izer baby, and to understand how and why they did so.That served as a superb buy-in ownership concept. Plusthe individuals cross-taught each other best practices.Figure 7: Students receiving & wiring their “babies.” In this mix were Chem E, Mech E, Bioscience & Physics students.A rich history of pedagogy exists re the “design” of a capstone design course.10 Under studentoutcomes (Criterion 3) for the accrediting board ABET,11 our capstone course like others satis-fies (c) an ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realis-tic constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety
transition? What facets of EM may have helped with the transition? 3. Did COVID create a specific need for new techniques and tools in the faculty community? 4. Did the virtual setting present an opportunity to reach a broader community?BackgroundEngineering education has experienced transitions before, often during large cultural shifts. Afterthe Second World War there was a significant transition in STEM curricula toward scientificintegration [3]. In the early 2000s the change in ABET requirements for ethics created anothersea change in engineering curricula [4]. The increase in active learning and evidence-basedinstructional practices has started a slower change in engineering education during the last 20years.Another example of
the information that can be gleaned from these data is in directtension with the significant potential for negative impact on individuals from the associated lossof privacy and a diminishing “right to be forgotten.” 16 This tension is itself an area of newscholarship as legal, ethical and social scholars explore the nature, value, and ownership ofpersonal digital information.Disruptive Innovation A disruptive innovation is one that changes the value proposition in an existing market tosuch an extent that existing market leaders are displaced by newcomers who have been earlyadopters of the disrupting innovation. Interestingly, case studies of disruptive innovation showthat the existing market leaders are typically aware of the
included making sure that students hadexperience with team diversity and conflict. Five of the participants reported that their team hadnot been “in sync.” Two other participants reported that their teams were split on whether tolaunch their project as a startup. As one participant reported, their team’s dynamics started on theright path but did not go as well toward the end of the project. The goal, he said, was to get thegrade and not to pursue the project. As another participant put it, his assigned team had noguarantee of a common work ethic or a common vision.A third factor involves lack of passion for the project. These results were aggregated into the“not among students’ main goals” factor in Fig. 1 but are striking enough to merit
Project courses for all majors. The importance of understanding risk andliability, of continuous professional development including licensure, and of ethics inengineering practice, all of which are relevant concepts for an entrepreneurial approach toengineering, have been stressed. Historically, senior projects that have led to longer-termstudent-private sector collaborations or even student-initiated business have been rare.Recently, entrepreneurship at Pitt-Johnstown has experienced a revitalization. A renewed pushto create an Entrepreneurial Studies program came from Pitt-Johnstown President Jem Spectar in2011. This led first to an agreement with Johnstown Area Regional Industries (JARI) to supportentrepreneurial internships for Pitt-Johnstown
, personnel, existing processes,stakeholders, mission, values and culture), as well as from outside the company (e.g. legal,regulatory, macroeconomic, ethical, and market dynamics). In using the Product ArchaeologyCanvas, students must “excavate” public information on all of these factors for an over-the-counter medical device. Like an archaeologist, they needed to create a plausible and coherentnarrative of the decisions the company made in moving that product idea to the customer. Withthis background they become forward-thinking intrapreneurs – proposing a way to increase thevalue of their product but in a way that balanced all of the various constraints and perspectives. Figure 3 – Product Archeology CanvasInnovation
management, Hangzhou Dianzi University 2007-2012 Associate Pro- fessor, School of management, Hangzhou Dianzi University 2005-2007 Assistant Professor, School of management, Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityMiss Yuexin Jiang, Zhejiang University Master degree candidate in School of Public Affairs in Zhejiang University. Research direction: Educa- tional Economy and Management.Dr. Xiaofeng Tang, Pennsylvania State University Xiaofeng Tang is a postdoctoral fellow in engineering ethics at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 University Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Through a Humanistic Lens” in Engineering Studies 2015 and ”A Game-Based Approach to Information Literacy and Engi- neering in Context” (with Laura Hanlan) in Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference 2015. A classroom game she developed with students and colleagues at WPI, ”Humanitarian Engineering Past and Present: Worcester’s Sewage Problem at the Turn of the Twentieth Century” was chosen by the Na- tional Academy of Engineering as an ”Exemplary Engineering Ethics Activity” that prepares students for ”ethical practice, research, or leadership in engineering.” c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Negotiating a Nineteenth-Century Solution AbstractThis
course being developed)11. Adapting a business to a changing climate12. Delivering an elevator pitch† (Junior Courses) Professional Engineering Seminar13. Resolving difficult ethical issues Social & Professional Issues in Computing Professional and Ethical Practice (Junior Courses) Chemical Engineering Laboratory14. Building
higher proportion of women than the existingproportion of women in the engineering school as a whole. They also found that students in theminor had higher math and verbal SAT scores than the general student population in the school.Co-curricular Involvement in Engineering and Entrepreneurship Education The value and impact of co-curricular experiences in the context of engineering educationhas been a growing topic of research for several years. Co-curricular experiences have beenshown to increase student engagement 23, enhance self-directed autonomy 24, nurture leadership25and enrich ethical decision making 26. The consistent positive impact findings suggest that co-curricular entrepreneurship education also has the potential to add
comparison EntrepreneurshipLangford,M.63Mueller, S. Gender-role orientation as a Journal of Developmental 2008L. and Dato- determinant of entrepreneurial self- EntrepreneurshipOn, M. C.47 efficacyLourenco F., Gender and business ethics of enterprise Journal of Entrepreneurship 2015et al.64 students and nascent entrepreneurs engaged in entrepreneurship educationRehman, S. Gender and work-life balance: a Journal of Small Business 2012and Roomi, phenomenological study of women and Enterprise DevelopmentM. A.65
, What about people who are colorblind; user comfort aesthetics and appeal, safety issues, and before, during, and after using VR; what new market price features do customers want; age group targeted. Social Research on a broader context, Are the results consistent across different severities accessibility to the product, and of ADHD; seen as ethical for those without mental potential risks illness: what is the inspiration story for the product; how many studies should you conduct and get peer
-based education, engineering ethics, and process safety education.Prof. Hadi Bozorgmanesh, University of Connecticut Professor of Practice, School of Engineering A director with over 20 years of nonexecutive and executive board of director’s experience, with deep knowledge of enterprise and academic entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Board of governance experience includes audit & risk management committees, finance and M&A committees, and executive compensation committeesMs. Manisha Srivastava, SurePath Evaluations LLC Ms. Manisha Srivastava is the founder and president of SurePath Evaluations LLC. Her experience in- cludes implementing program assessments at the federal level and serving as the principal
teams.1,2,3,4This has largely been driven by industry’s needs and requirements to become more multi-disciplinary and remain competitive in the workforce. This is also seen in the accreditationrequirements of ABET where student outcomes are implicitly and/or explicitly collaborative innature, e.g. general criterion 3: student outcomes (c) “an ability to design a system, component,or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints such as economic, environmental,social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and sustainability,” (d) “an abilityto function on multidisciplinary teams,” and (g) “an ability to communicate effectively.”5Providing opportunities for students to work in cross-disciplinary teams is a desired
ethical practice grounded in science and engineering methods andstandards. The process involves face-to-face meetings and discussions with entrepreneurs of thecity, from the presentation of the problem until the delivery of the plans. Once engineers are partof society it is important that they have a stronger interaction with the wider public. So the goal ofincluding this course in the program is to provide students the opportunity to work closely withthe real local entrepreneurship environment. Apart from this, engineers need to develop broadfundamental understanding of their professional responsibilities, as well as the need to beentrepreneurial in order to understand and contribute in the context of market and businesspressures. If engineers
% 16% Financial management skills 4% 3% Time management 65% 39% Integrity and ethics 18% 11% Safety 34% 26% Community service and outreach 1% 0% Communication 59% 39% Teamwork 85% 63%It is worth noting that the both groups agree on skills in design, time management, andteamwork as the most impacted.Degree of ConfidenceRQ3: What is the level of self-confidence and motivation of students who use the facilityin the skills that the facility was developed to
). Page 26.748.12Qualitatively, however, the students who participated in the 2014 semester-long class haveshown significant additional benefits. First, a number of professors in the Valparaiso UniversityCollege of Engineering have noticed improvements in attitude and work ethic among thestudents taking the class. Second, these students have bonded as friends based upon this longershared experience. Finally, they have taken on an almost evangelical approach to campaigningfor the continuation of the semester-long version of Creativity and Innovation in the EngineeringDesign Process. These sentiments come through in a number of the comments made by thestudents in the course evaluation (see Table 3).Table 3. Student feedback on semester-long course
camp with learning blocks creates a totally immersiveand engaging environment for the learner. At the same time, these learning blocks allowfor entrepreneurial concepts to be embedded inherently. The character traits of successfulentrepreneurs, as defined by state school standards, are adaptability, creative thinking,ethical behavior, leadership, positive attitude, and risk-taking.1 These character traits willalso be focused on in terms of outcomes.Mater ials and methodsEntrepreneurship and deeper learning outcomes have been a recent focus of industry andeducation with many new studies outlining how these skill sets can substantially changethe outcomes of students. Research findings demonstrate improved student outcomes,higher levels of
skillset and their entrepreneurial mindset in a year-long, real-world design project.Throughout the curriculum, professional skills such as oral and written communication,innovation, understanding constraints, sustainability, technical feasibility, customer value,societal benefits, economic analysis, and professional ethics are addressed with increasing depthas students develop their skillset.Course Overview The focus of this paper is the sophomore level EGE 2123: Entrepreneurial EngineeringDesign Studio course mentioned above. Specifically, in this course, students identifyopportunities for engineering design themselves within the context of the design theme“Accessibility in the Workplace”. The focus of this theme is to design and build a
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have strong work ethics and that in general want to do things such as working with a professor or start an entrepreneurship. (Faculty member, UAI)PUC students feature similar characteristics of those at UAI. Some students enroll in engineeringwith the idea of continuing the family business. However, the school strongly encourages theteaching of entrepreneurship skills to their students so they can develop it in their professionallife, either by launching their own project or in a public or private organization. When theyengage in entrepreneurship they see it as a way of generating social impact.What are the main strategies the selected engineering schools use for the promotion ofentrepreneurship education?As a synthesis of these
, profession-based, industry andsociety level abstract learning objectives is surprisingly short. It is as close as your closeststudent. SBL is focusing on student’s knowledge, skills and self-awareness capabilitiesthrough its methodology. It is not a substitute for engineer´s disciplinary knowledge. It ispart of “software” that runs the engineering skills through making the student morecapable in creating and sharing her passion, vision and thoughts in a group of people.Though not listed directly in the ABET criteria1, 16 document we believe that thesequalities are part of the key skill set in creating sustainable engineering, coming up withnew ventures, commitment to life long learning, and simply fostering ethical andcommitted individuals to the
heuristics.Dr. Justin L. Hess, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis Dr. Justin L Hess is the Assistant Director of the STEM Education Innovation and Research Institute at IUPUI. His research interests include ethics, design, and sustainability. Dr. Hess received each of his degrees from Purdue University, including a PhD in Engineering Education, a Master of Science in Civil Engineering, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He is currently the Vice Chair of the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Committee on Sustainability subcommittee on Formal Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Critical Incidents in Engineering Students
Leadership and Ethical Decision-Making Systems Engineering I Systems Engineering II Electrical Engineering Capstone Table 1: Courses for MSEE Master’s ProgramThe EML approach using the KEEN framework will help provide further relevance andmotivation for the student in coming up with entrepreneurial ideas for their projects.Capstone Course DescriptionThe capstone course offers the student the opportunity to integrate skills developed throughoutthe graduate program by completing a project that focuses on a current issue or need requiring anengineering solution. Since the program has two system engineering courses, the capstonecourse was used
-specified student outcomes, namely the ability to:apply STEM principles, analyze and interpret data, assess feasibility of a design, function onmultidisciplinary teams, understand professional and ethical responsibility, communicateeffectively, use tools necessary for engineering practice, comprehend contemporary issues,identify value and participate in life-long learning, and understand the impact of solutions in aglobal context.28 Moreover, the US-Denmark Summer School’s defined learning outcomes alignwith desired traits of the successful future engineer. The National Academy of Engineeringacknowledges and even emphasizes the role of globalization on shaping these necessary traits,among which are: the ability to work within the framework of